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Legal DOn'tS

Don't rely on witness who can't 60
into detail.
Don't testify to your own conclusions
unless you are an expert.
Don't refuse the call of sheriff to aid
him in making an arrest.
Don't think that compound interest
will render contract usurious.
Don't forget that chattel mortgage is,
in fact, a conditional bill OF sale.
Don't sue for one-half of demand
unless you want to lose the other.
|. Don't forget that there is an implied
guaranty in selling goods by sample.
Don't transcend your authority as
agent, or you will become personally re-
sponsible.
Don't erect building upon foundations
sunken into the ground or 1t will become
part of the realty.
Don't hold a paper or IN account an
unreasonable time, or you will be pre-
sumed to admit its correctness.
Don'taccept chattcl mortgage unless
the schedule annexed contains every
article to be covered by the lien.
Don't think that promise to marry
will be void because no time is fixed.
The law will allow reasonable time.
Don't acknowledge man as an agent
unless he can show that he stands in his
principals shoes as to the business in
hand.
Don't take title where there is a
judgment against man of the same
name as your grantor, without conclusive
proof that he IS not the judgment debtor.
| Don't forget that promissory note in
the hands of innocent third parties for
value shuts out all dcfenccs usually made
on ntracts.-Philadelphia Ncaos.
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Saving the Teeth.

"What should man use to clean his
teeth2" was the question asked of we'll
known dentist recently. The dentist re-
piled at once: "Nothing but water.
There are more good teeth ruined by So
called dentifrices than by all other causes
in the world put together. The object
of the makers of these dentifrices is, of
course, to produce preparation that will,
with very little rubbing of the brush,
make the teeth look perfectly clean and
white. To accomplish this they put
pumice stone, and sometimes strong
alkalis, in their preparations. Pumice
stone will unqucstionably take all the
tartar off the tooth, and it will also, just
as questionably, take all the enamel with
it. An alkali will make yellow tooth
look white in few seconds, but before
a week has passed it will have eaten
away nearly all the enamel and utterly
destroyed the tooth. In walking along
the street you often see fakir, by way
of advertising his patent dentrifice, call
a small boy from the crowd near by, and.
opening the boys mouth, rub the dentri-
flee on his dirty teeth, and in minute
almost, take off all the tartar and make
the teeth look perfectly pure and white.
Now, man like that fakir ought to lie
arrested, for he has forever destroyed that
boys teeth. His preparation, composed
of powerful alkali, is eating away the
enamel of the boys teeth, and in a few
months the poor youngster will not have
a sound tooth in his head. The denti-
frices, composed chiefly Of pumice stone.
are not as bad as those containing an
alkali, because they will not destroy the
teeth so quickly; but if used habitually
they will as certainly destroy them in the
end. My own plan is to use a moderately
hard brush and plenty of cold water, and
nothing else, and my teeth are in excel
lent condition. If people would only
pick their teeth carefully after each meal,
making sure that not the slightest parti-
Gle of food remained near the gums or
between the teeth, and would also, before
retiring at night, run piece Of soft thread
between their teeth, they would not have
any necessity for dentrifce. OF course
sweets and candies are bad for the teeth;
50 is smoking, or taking either very cold
or hot drinks; but. as bad as all these un-
doubtedly are, 1 really think that the
worst enemy the tooth has is the So
called dcntrifice. Take the advice OF
dentist, and never use anything for your
teeth but brush and good cold water"
Boston Gazette.
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The Rock of Gibraltar.

The appearance of this renowned pro-
montory from the sea is very impressive; :
1t is, 1 Judge, some three miles long and
nearly two Thousand feet high, the high
es, part being a huge bluff looking de-
family over into Spain. Many patriotic
Enelishmen think that it resembles the
cronching British lion, and with an clas-
tic stretch of the imagination it may as
sumo somewhat the outline of the figure
of that lconine guardian of their tight
little island" A cloud or two were sail
ing majestically along the top OF the
Rock; below we could see the white
foam OF the breakers as they dashed
against the rocky base of Europa point,
While on the sheltered side along the
shore of the bay was the snug and pic,
turesque looking town, nestled behind
the grim Inc Of batteries and fortitica, .,
tions. On the opposite shore OF the
bav. some three or four miles across, IS
tic Spanish seaport of Alg'ceras.- - B0s-
ton Transcrit.
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Labels and Records.

During the latter part of autumn, as
well as in the spring, trees and plants
have been set out, and need stakes and
labels to preserve their names and places.
If they are to remain for years, they
should also be registered in an account
book. Small wooden labels and stakes
are often used, and if the names are
written with pencil on thin coating
of white paint, they will usually remain
for some years. But the owners of small
places do not always have the white
paint at hand, and write on the dry,
wooden surface. A few showers of rain
obliterate such names; but if the wood
is first moistened, before the writing is
done, the name will strike into the pores,
and will last distinctly for year or two.
If in addition to wetting the surface, a
little gritty soil or sand is very thinly
rubbed over the surface, it will give
. much greater distinctness or blackness
from the pencil, and be as good as
if written on white paint.
Fruit trees are most conveniently Ia
belcd on one of the side limbs, for which
the old method was to hang a plate of
meCAl VI d piece VI Wooo Will loOp VI
copper wire. The difficulty in using
such labels is that the wire often cracks
or breaks off after swinging years in the
wind, or else it cuts into the bark of the
branch, while some labor is required in
making and placing them. A much
cheaper label is made of a strip of zinc
half an inch wide and several inches
long, on one end of which the name is
written with common pencil, and the
other end is coiled around the side limb,
90 that the name hangs down in full
tight. The zinc must be roughened a
little with rust, by exposure to moisture
Or salt water, so as to take strong mark
from the pencil. Such writing on zinc
will last for lifetime exposed to the
weather. We have seen it as distinct as
ever after thirty years exposure. The
coil should extend rather more than once
around the branch, and as the tree grows,
the zinc slowly uncoils and does not cut
the bark. Scrap zinc will make them by
the hundred for the mere labor, and they
will be far better than any of the more
expensive tags with wire loops.-Culi-
rdt0r.
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The Work Of Seven Men.

That locality and circumstance alone
are true magicians in respect to their
effects on the value of human labor is
well known. In manual by Mr.. Alex
ander Wylic, entitled Labor, Luxury
and LEISURE" it is stated that on the vast
farms of Dakota, the equivalent of one
mans work, supposing the crop amounts
to twenty bushels TO the acre, is 800
bushels of wheat. Now, keeping back
enough for seed, we have here sufficient
to produce 1000 barrels of flour. This
mass of food stuff can be carried through
the flour mill and put into barrels, in
Guiding the labor of making the latter,
at the equivalent of one other mans
labor for year. Again, it has ben
worked out that at the ratio Of the work
accomplished by each man employed on
the New York Central railroad, the
wheat can be transported to the -four
mill and the thousand barrels of -four re-
moved to this city, and all the machinery
of the farm, the mill and the road be kept
in full "going order" for an equivalent
to the whole labor of two more men. 1t
comes, then, to this: That one thousand
barrels of flour, the annual ration of one
thousand persons, can be placed in New
York from point 1000 miles away with
the exertions of only four men working
one year in producing, mi ling and
transporting tie wheat. Further, the
staple food can be baked and distributed
by the endeavors of three more persons.
It follows, then, that just seven persons
can supply ore thousand with the staff
of ife.-Neg YQrk NeWs.
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Cipars Made from Paper.

Smokers will be interested to know
that not thousand miles from Albany
there is a firm which makes large guam
titles of paper for this avowed purpose.
The plan of operation is said to be this;
The paper on reaching the tobacco ware
house is repeatedly soaked in a strong
decoction of the plant. 1t is then cut
up aud pressed in moids which give to
each sheet the vcnation of the genuine
leaf tobacco. So close is the imitation
that expert tobacco men and habitual
smokers have been deceived. At re,
cent gathering in this city cigars made
from this paper tobacco were passed
around and declared excellent. Many OF
those present declared that the cigar;
we're made from rare brands, and so well
was the imitation carried out that one
man actually insisted that there could he
no mistake about the cigars being genu'
inc tobacco. Express.
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Farm ana Garden Notes.

"Go for" sheep-killing dogs, every
time.
Have no machines "lying around
loose"
Warm stables, sheds, ETC., economize
fodder, remember.
This is a good season to compare notes
with brother farmers.
Better pay double for clean seed than
TO SOW that which is foul.
Frequent changes of food for fowls are
indispensable to success.
With many products, how to sell is as
important as how to produce.
4 After all iasaid, there is more in the
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Big and Little Cows.

. Speaking of big cows, writer in the
Western Farm Journal asks: Do we want
them2 He argues that small kline, as
general purpose COWS, are preferable, un
less the large cow gives return of milk
and butter in proportion to her size
then she is the cow to keep, for she will
make a 'fine mess of beef" when fat
tened as an old animal But if for milk
alone, then we want the llolstein or Ayr
shire; if for butter, the Jersey or Guern-
sey; not necessarily thoroughbred ami
mails, as high grades will answer the
purpose almost equallyss we'll. BY the
way, the prices Of fine cattle are getting
down to figures which permit their pur-
chase by farmers of moderate means;
and, as has often been observed, it costs
no more to breed thoroughbred animal
than scrub. Commercials Gazette.
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The RuttleSnake's Eye.

A writer in Forest and St'rans says :
.Wben hc is alive and excited, l know
of nothing in all nature of so dreadful
annearance as the eye of the rattlesnakc.
1t is enough to strike not only birds and
little animals, but men with nightmare.
T have on several occasions examined
them closely with strong glasses and feel
with all the force what state, ava Will
tell YOU that there are few mer on the
face of the earth who can look upon an
aneered rattlesnakc through a good
plass-bringing him apparently within a
foot or two of the eye-and stand 1t more
than moment"
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Home Made Candies for the Holi.
days.

days.
Pure, fresh, homemade candies are
among the most delightful of Christmas
sweets. Most of them, too, are so easily
made that no one need fail to treat their
young folk to quite variety during the
holidays. The most delicious orange OF
lemon bonbons are prepared as simply as
follows: Squeeze enough orange or lemon
juice into cup with confectioners sugar
| to make of right consistency to mold
into any desired shape. Then roll in
granulated sugar, and place on buttered
paper.
Cocoanut drops are made with one
grated cocoanut, whites of four eggs we'll
beaten, and half pound of fine sugar.
Beat all together and lay on buttered
paper, in the shape of drops. Place IN
quick oven till slightly brown.
White, Maple Nut and Molasses Tally
White taffy: Two pounds of granulated
sugar, one teacupful of cold water, two
teaspoonfuls of butter, two tcaspoonfuls
of vinegar. Boil without stirring till
brittle when tested in Water. When done,
add one teaspoonful of vanilla and pour
on buttered platter to cool. Pull rapid
| ly till white and brittle; cut into sticks.
Maple nut taffy: Two pounds of maple
sugar, one pint of water. Boil without
stirring till brittle when dropped in cold
water. When done, add one table
spoonful of vinegar. Have ready but
! tered tins lined with nuts and pour the
candy over them. When partly cool
mark off into strips. Molasses taffy:
One cupful of moasses, one cupful of
sugar and piece OF butter the size Of an
, egg. Flavor as desired.
Caramcls and Lemon Candy.-One cup.
full each of chocolate, milk, molasscs and
sugar and piece of butter the size o. an
egg. Boil all together till it wakes IN
water. Flavor with vanilla, put upon
! buttcred tins and mark off when partly
cool.
For rlemon candy, to which any kind OF
chopped nuts may be added If desired,
boil one pound of sugar and one cup OF
water slowly for half an hour and clear
with little hot vinegar. Test by drop
ping in cold water, and when brittle
| flavor with lemon and pour upon but
! tered tins.
| English Walnuts and Cream Al
monds. English walnut candy is par
ticularly nice. The ingredients are five
cups of granulated sugar, seven table
spoonfuls of water, three tablespoonful
OF vinegar and one tablespoon of butter.
Boil without stirring till it crisps in cold
water, then remove to rear OF stove and
while the mixture is still hot dip each
walnut in the slme and lay on buttered
pans to cool.
Cream almonds: Two and half cups
of fine sugar and one half-cup of water.
Boil four minutes, then beat till cool
enough to handle. Mold over almond
nuts and roll in coarse sugar.
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She Married Him.

Said an aged matron to me once:
'When my Cousin William came home
from his three years cruise his old blue
cloth suit with brass buttons looked very
old fashioned, and said: Cousin Will
lam, you should buy yourself some new
clothes, you can afford it but he an
swered, Il do not worry about my
clothes, Cousin Mary, I have brought
home four shot-bags full of gold-pieccs,
and the girls will marry me now" -.
And to my Ibid any one marry him ?"
she replied, while a faint tinge mantled
her aged checks:
"lcs, / married him. ."-Baltin'o1e
American.
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THERE are lUUSlrl bluueHtS 1T SoihSii Shi-
versity.
The Erie Railway steadily holds the lead as
the fayorite route with all tourists. This Is
true because of the many improvements con-
stantly being made in all branches of service;
the substition of hard coal burning engines;
the placing in use of system Of block signals,
thus enhancing the safety and speed or trains;
station buildings along the line of the road, Of
which those at Rochester and Jersey City are
fair samples, and the placing in commission Of
the latest and most improved coaches.
In addition to the above the Erie Is constant
mentation Of the conveniences it would place
before its patrons. In proof of this statement
is the lengthening of the Erie's track to within
three blocks of the Falls Of Niagara, and on the
property acquired by this extension an ele-
CANT new station building Is to be erect erected.
Niagara Falls Canadian points, Chicago, st:
Louis, Cincinnati, through Pullman coaches OF
the latest construction are run, and all details
which cater to the pleasure Of travelling. public
are handled with great care and liberality.
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Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

ELI ROBBINS, R,tnyan P. O.. Columbia Co.
Pd., says: My daughter had catarrh when
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro.
cured bottle fer her, and soon saw that Il
helped her; O third bottle effected a perma.
neIlt cure. She is now eighteen years old ane
solnd and hearty"
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"What lovely complexion" we often hear
persons say. 81 wonder what she does for it?''
In every case the purity and real DWELLINGS, Of
the complexion depends upon the blood. Those
their skin smooth and healthy by taking
enough Of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery" to drive out the humors lurking in the
system,
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ITCHING PILEs.-Symptnms - Moisture; in
tense itching and stinging; worse by scratching.
II allowed to continue tumors form, which Of
SwAYNE's OINTMENT stops the itching and
bleeding, heals liberation, and In many cases
removes the tumors: 1t Is equally snicaciouS
SON, PropretOrs, Phila. By mail for 80 cents.
SWAYNE'S OINTMENT for sale by druggists.
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The Poor Little Ones.

We often see children with red eruptions on
face and hands, rough, scaly skin, and often
PRAYED condition of the blood. In the growing
period, children have need of pure blood by
which to build up strong and healthy bodies.
If DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" Is
given, the blood Is purged OF its bad elements,
and the child's development will be healthy,
and as it should be. Scrofulous affections,
ricketts,, fever-sores, hip-joint disease or other
grave maladies and suffering are sure to result
from neglect and lack OF proper attention to
such cases.
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Value of Cob Meal.

While the cob of the corn ear has put
little nutriment in it. yet when the whole
ear is ground the meal contains more di-
gestible nutriment in it than meal of the
clear corn alone. This has been proved
by numerous trials made in feeding COWS
and pigs, especially some made by a
leading farmers club in Massachusetts,
and others by the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural Experiment Station. In the writer's
practice the whole cars of corn boiled soft
with potatoes, and wholly eaten by pigs
have been found 10 make more weight
of pork than dry snelled corn. The
reason for this is that more of the corn is
digested when the cob is ground with it,
and some Of the cob at least is digested
when given with the corn than if it were
fed alone. This accords with similar ex-
perience in feeding straw and other
coarse fodder with meal of different
kinds and in feeding cut hay or corn
fodder with meal. Henceit may be con-
sidered economy to grind the whole corn
ears for feeding pigs.-Neo York Times.
How Sheep Pay.
If farmer has plenty of patience, and
is willing to give close attention to de-
tails in the care of stock, he can make
more money for food consumed from
sheep than from ony other stock. But
not one farmer in ten will care to give
them the attention they require at certain
seasons of the year; so the few who do
take good care of a flock will find a
good market for mutton, and demand
for wool at some price, usually enough
to pay wintering the flock. A farm
which is rolling in its surface seems per-
fectly adapted to sheep raising. Such
land needs grass on the hilltops to keep
it from washing, and sheep need hill
tops and sweet, short grass. They like
to lie down on hillside in the spring,
where the sun makes the ground dry and
warm, and where they are protected from
the cold sweep of the wind.
The greatest profit from sheep is not
in mutton or wool, but in the enhanced
fertility of the farm on which they are
kept. No other stock can compare with
sheep in this direction. The increased
value comes from two causes: the large
quantity of solid and liquid manure de-
posted on all the land, and particularly
on the highest and poorest points in the
pasture. The manure. being fine and
ell.scattered, is pressed about the roots
of the grass, where it gives the greatest
possible benefit. Another source where
BY the grasses are encouraged is the de-
struction of bushes and many kinds of
weeds which grow where cattle and
horses only are pastured. Hazel-brush
fares very badly in the sheep pasture,
and wild roses, rag-weed, burdocks, and
other weeds are selected first, and then
the sheep look for grass. In this way a
sheep pasture becomes like beautiful
lawn, and every year grows better; but if
the farmer sees millions in Sheep" and
over-stocks his fields, then the grass goes
with the bushes and weeds. Then the
theep get poor, tumble down one aft"r
another, their ambition lessons as tn ir
flesh goes, and the unfortunate owner,
or imprudent manager, votes sheep a
perfect nuisance. AgricHltu-
rist.
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Con.umutiop Surely Cured,

Consumption Surely Cured.
To the Editor:-l'lease inform your readers
that / have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cured.
shall be glad to send two bottles Of my remedy
FREE to any Of your readers who have con.
and P. o. address. Respectfully,
T. A SLOCUM. NC. 1S1 Pearl St. y. Y.
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Recipes.

HAM CRooUETTEs.-Chop the ham
very fine and season with pepper Oh
mustard. With little -four in hand,
make up small balls and dip in beaten
eggs, roll in crumbs of bread or cracker,
and fry to light brown in hot lard
MILK FRosTINe.-Ten tablespoonful
of sweet milk, one and a half cups Of
sugar; let boil six minutes; take off and
stir until quite white; put in little
lemon, spread quickly before getting too
hard, wetting the knife in cold water.
Very nice.
GOOD COFFEE. the amount o.!
water you generally use for coffee, put
into saucepan, add coffee (glound), two
spoonfuls for each cup. Just before the
/ water boils throw in few drops of cold
water; take the pan off and strain the
liquid through piece of muslin.
MuLLED RIcE.--A coffee-cup of rice
washed and soaked an hour in hot water; /;
then boil slowly four hours in two quarts
Of sweet milk. 1t should be eaten hot,
and room left in the pudding dish to
| pour over the pudding Gust before
bringing to the table, the following
! sauce: Beat two eggs, whites and yo ks
separately, the former until they will
stand alone; into this beat tcacupful
of fine white sugar; add vanilla or nut
; meg.
PANcAKEs.-Onep pint milk, two eggs,
one tablespoonful sugar, one cupful flour,
one tcaspoonful baking powder, one cup
full cream, one pinch salt. Sift -four,
salt and powder together. add 70 it eggs
beaten with sugar and diluted with milk
add cream, mix into thin batter; have
small round frying-pan, melt butter in
it, turn pan round, that batter may cover
the pan, put on hot fire; turn it and
brown other side; butter each and roll
it up. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
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Petroleum has been discovered near
anton, Chin.
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aUntold Agony from Catarrh.o

Prof. W. HAusNER, tho famous mesmerisk,
of ithaca, ~ Y, writes: "Some ten years ago
suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. My family physician gave me up a.
incurable, and said must die. My case was
such bad one, that every day, towards sun.
set, my voice would become so hoarse could
barely speak above a whisper. In the morning
almost strangle me. BY the use Of DIR. Sageis
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was well
man, and the cure has been permanent"